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Check Ideas 👇 | Save for Later 📌 Feeling swamped with papers, supplies, and lesson plans? These 22 teacher organization ideas for 2025 will help you stay sane, save time, and keep your classroom running smooth. Perfect for busy teachers who need smart storage hacks, desk setups, and planning tips that actually make a difference.

Tidy up your teacher desk with flair! Dive into our blog post for chic and practical teacher desk organization accessories and ideas. Whether it's your classroom desk or home work area, these tips will transform your space into an organized haven. Perfect for teachers seeking a stylish yet functional workspace upgrade!

Teacher desk

So many teachers are not using independent workstations or sometimes called independent work systems. Today, I am sharing 6 objections to using independent work stations and what you can do to overcome them. Using independent work systems in your special education classroom has so many benefits for your students and I want to offer solutions to common problems I hear from special education teachers. I share how to set up your classroom as well as how to keep materials organized.

Structured work systems, also called independent work stations, are perfect for students in a self-contained classroom. These systems are visual systems that are strategically set up so students can work independently. Today I am sharing 3 structured work systems for special education students. You will find details about task box centers, three drawer work systems, and independent work binders. Students can work on file folder activities, writing or tracing, matching activities and more!

Independent work

WHAT THIS DOCUMENT ISThis document IS a possible instructional tool for transference, scaffolding and differentiation moving away from a particular GLAD strategy toward more cognitively demanding tasks. Students who have not mastered a GLAD strategy as it is originally intended, will need appropriate scaffolds for these tasks. Students who have mastered the GLAD strategy or beyond may benefit from the Extending Complexity Tasks. The tasks must be completed independently to truly be at the DOK le

These charts are great to pull up for spontaneous GLAD-inspired lessons and other teaching situations where paper charts are not feasible. I recommend saving each page as a template in your SMART gallery so you can incorporate these charts into your SMART lessons.

GLAD strategies

Teaching Strategy: Begin Class With A Soft Start Routine

No academics before Halloween? Yes, you read that correctly. As a functional life skills teacher, I don’t focus on academics the first 6-8 weeks of school. Instead, I focus on routines and expectations, independent work tasks, independent skills, and collecting baseline data in the first 6 weeks of school. This allows my special education students to get into a routine, and know what to expect as we start the school year. Learn how I structure my day during the first weeks of school here.

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As a special education teacher, staying organized is essential. But, finding a system to organize IEPs and special education paperwork that actually works isn’t easy. Here is a step by step guide to finding an IEP organization system that works, what information you need in your IEP caseload binder, and digital IEP organization tips along with my favorite IEP organization resources for special education teachers. Special education teachers, snag this step by step guide and get organized!

Special education teachers, take the stress out of gathering data for your special education students by using an IEP Input Form. These forms allow you to quickly and easily gather data from parents, general education teachers, support staff and parents. Learn all about IEP Input Forms, why you should use them, who should give input on a student’s IEP and the benefits of IEP Input Forms here. Get ready to make getting feedback and input about your special education students so much easier.

Are you looking for a simple way to teach your IEP team or special education parents about the disability categories, what an IEP is, the parts of an IEP or special education acronyms? This bundle of IEP brochures is the perfect special education resource to help all parts of the IEP understand a student’s disability and IEP. Grab this set of brochure to add to your IEP paperwork, sub binder, or to send home to parents.

IEP resources

working with paraprofessionals in the special education classroom, resources for special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and educational assistants

Working with Paras

Special education teachers, these hacks will be a game changer in your classroom! If you are struggling with classroom organization, data collection, or prepping your classroom materials, these tips and trick are for you. They are by far my favorite special education teacher tricks to not only help you stay organized by all keep up with all the day to day aspects of being a special education teacher. Don’t sleep on these special education teacher hacks.

First year tips

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Are you looking for ideas for how to set up a calm down corner in your classroom? Calm down corners are a great way for students to practice self regulation strategies in the classroom, but what exactly do you put in a calm down area? On this blog, you’ll find my favorite calm down corner supplies and tips for setting up a calm down area in your classroom. These resources are perfect for all students, especially elementary students or special education students who are working on self regulation

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